Becca
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Epstein Ballroom already putting up big numbers!
Only 24% approve, and less than half of Republicans, of demolition at White House
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Massively parallel interrogation of the fitness of natural variants in ancient signaling pathways reveals pervasive local adaptation
The nature of standing genetic variation remains a central debate in population genetics, with differing perspectives on whether common variants are almost always neutral as suggested by neutral and n...
www.biorxiv.org
David Brooks says Democrats have destroyed democratic norms by … trying to save healthcare subsidies. Much worse than blowing up boats for social media content purposes.
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That U.S. academics didn't collectively develop strong labor consciousness is really going to bite them in the ass as universities bend the knee to this administration. Politely worded letters to presidents and trustees are not going to count for much of anything.
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Canned beets? Lentils? Dry beans? Canned mushrooms?
Canned beets? Lentils? Dry beans? Canned mushrooms?
Tempted to start a food blog that's just "I have this thing in my pantry, I've bought it aspirationally, I've never cooked with it before, what do?"
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The angle the pic is taken at reveals hundreds of screens there at 4 a desk
glad I don't have financial infos to be stolen
glad I don't have financial infos to be stolen
Congrats workers on your new hell zone
12 years ago Musk said he'd be sending people to Mars in 10 years
Elon Musk said Tesla’s robot will be ‘incredible surgeon,’ help eradicate poverty- but he left Wall Street with no forecast on EV demand or margins… www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/e...
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Senator Merkley is on hour 20 of reading How Democracies Die, mixed w commentary, on u.s. senate floor
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Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...
As a sustainable fish pescetarian I accept and embrace people having different diets but
PLEASE STOP EATING OCTOPUSES THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL AND EXTREMELY SMART CREATURES!!! 🐙🐙🐙
PLEASE STOP EATING OCTOPUSES THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL AND EXTREMELY SMART CREATURES!!! 🐙🐙🐙
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